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RISM at the III Encuentro de Archivos Sonoros y Musicales de Chile
I (Klaus Keil) had the opportunity to give a presentation about RISM and its database of musical sources during the conference III Encuentro de Archivos Sonoros y Musicales de Chile (5-16 March 2018). The Biblioteca nacional de Chile invited me to participate in the conference. During the conference, training courses...
23 April 2018 – Evénements
Printed Music to 1550: A Report from the Central Office II
For those who are interested in early music prints, watch out! After revising the entries from the RISM B/I series to 1550 (see report) and related A/I entries, all of the remaining A/I entries to 1550 have now been revised. Some of them now have exact years and in other...
19 April 2018 – Nouveau au RISM
Bach Family Autographs Online
Have you ever seen Johann Sebastian Bach’s Art of the Fugue in the composer’s own handwriting? How about the St. Matthew Passion or the Well-Tempered Clavier? With the Bach Digital database, you have all this and more at your fingertips. If you’re not familiar with this resource, Bach Digital is...
16 April 2018 – Ressources en ligne
The Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth is open again, in all its Baroque glory
After more than five years of renovation, the Margravial Opera House in Bayreuth will reopen in a ceremony today (12 April). This Baroque opera house is one of a kind in the world, with a splendid wooden interior surrounded by tiered boxes, and has been a UNESCO World Heritage site...
12 April 2018 – Evénements
La série B III du RISM : Une nouvelle base de données
Nous avons reçu cette annonce de notre colleague Christian Meyer que nous vous relayons: Le catalogue sommaire des manuscrits décrits dans la série B III du Répertoire international des sources musicales (The Theory of Music, 6 vol., München, 1961-2003), mis en ligne vers 2001 sur le portail du Lexicon musicum...
9 April 2018 – Ressources en ligne
Byzantine Music Archives join Muscat
We have received the following announcement from Arsinoi Ioannidou on behalf of RISM Greece: The Working Group of the RISM Office in Greece, Maria Aslanidi, Aris Bazmadelis and Arsinoi Ioannidou, is currently embarking on a nationwide project to document Byzantine music in Greece, using Muscat. However, although Byzantine music is...
3 April 2018 – Nouveau au RISM
Remembering Danuta Szlagowska (1946-2018)
We were saddened to hear of the death of our dear colleague Prof. Dr. Hab. Danuta Szlagwoska, who passed away on 13 March 2018. Prof. Szlagwoska had been a member of the RISM Poland working group in Gdańsk since 1997. Through her extensive documentation work there, she contributed immensely to...
26 March 2018 – In memoriam
100th Anniversary of Claude Debussy's Death
The following post is by Ulrike Schädel, our intern for winter 2018: This Sunday, 25 March 2018, marks the 100th anniversary of Claude Debussy’s death. He was born in a little French village in 1862 and died at the age of 56 in 1918 in Paris. The RISM database reveals...
22 March 2018 – Anniversaires
The Compositions Attributed to G. F. Handel, 1700-1800
This one is new to our bookshelves: Hans Joachim Marx and Steffen Voss, Die G. F. Händel zugeschriebenen Kompositionen, 1700-1800 / The Compositions Attributed to G. F. Handel, 1700-1800 (HWV Anh. B) (Hildesheim: Olms, 2017). ISBN: 978-3-487-15483-1. This book is the result of a project called “Händel-Incerta,” or works of...
19 March 2018 – Nouveautés
Lili Boulanger (21 August 1893–15 March 1918)
The following is a guest post by Dr. Anya Holland-Barry. She received her PhD in Musicology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison. Her dissertation is entitled “Lili Boulanger (1893-1918) and World War I France: Mobilizing Motherhood and the Good Suffering.” Marie-Juliette Olga (“Lili”) Boulanger (21 August 1893–15 March 1918)...
15 March 2018 – Anniversaires
